ERBIL, Iraq, Sept. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Five One Labs, a startup incubator for refugee and conflict-affected entrepreneurs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, announced the launch of its 30-day crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The campaign aims to raise $50,000 to support the launch of its first three-month incubator cohort...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Fresh out of Y Combinator, leading meditation platform Simple Habit is announcing a $2.5 million funding round led by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley. Investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Fabrice Grinda’s FJ Labs, Foundation Capital and founders of Dropbox and Gusto....

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Tubi TV — the leading free streaming TV and movie network— today announced a $20M round of funding led by Jump Capital. Existing investor Foundation Capital, who led their Series A, is also joining this round of funding. Investors Danhua Capital and Cota Capital...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Revolution Prep, an innovator in the tutoring and test prep space, today announced the completion of a $4 million round of funding, led by existing investor Kennet Partners, a leading technology growth equity investor. Several industry veterans participated including Jeffrey Cohen and Scott...

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Invertex, an early stage Israeli fashion-tech company that delivers cognitive, connected, omnichannel measure-to-fit footwear solutions, announced the closing of its $2 million seed funding round. The round was led by Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding VC OurCrowd through its OurCrowd First early stage...

Weekend Ventures organizes hackathons and meetups for developers & tech startups across India. Thrice a year, they organize hackathons and meetups in major cities to bring together the most promising early stage teams to launch startups & pitch to the most sought accelerators & seed investors. WV has four initiatives which are taken up...

source Bloomberg /image source- letgo Letgo, an online marketplace for buying and selling used goods, said it raised $175 million to invest in growth plans and grab market share from EBay Inc. and Craigslist. Existing investor Naspers Ltd., Africa’s biggest company by market value, led the company’s Series C round,...

source.. techcrunch Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is acquiring Meta, an AI-powered research search engine...